My Dietary Supplements

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a free mobile app for consumers called My Dietary Supplements (MyDS). MyDS gives you an easy way to keep track of the vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other products you take — right in the palm of your hand. It also gives you access to our science-based, reliable fact sheets on dietary supplements. Spanish language versions of our fact sheets are included too. In addition, general information about ODS — who we are and what we do is also provided.

Simply enter the names and amounts of your dietary supplements and you’ll have access to this important information anytime, anywhere — for example, when seeing your doctor or shopping. With MyDS, you also can email your personal list of dietary supplements to yourself or to your health care providers and print it out.

Pillbox

Pillbox was developed to aid in the identification of unknown solid dosage pharmaceuticals. The system combines high-resolution images of tablets and capsules with appearance information (imprint, shape, color, etc.) to enable users to visually search for and identify an unknown solid dosage pharmaceutical.

The system enables users to identify solid dosage forms based on physical criteria: imprint (characters or number printed on a medication), shape, color, size, and scoring. Users are shown thumbnail images of possible matches. These images are continually updated as the user enters additional information.

Once a solid dosage form has been identified, additional information is provided, including brand/generic name, ingredients, and the National Drug File identification number. Links are provided to NLM drug information resources, such as drug labels (DailyMed) and the Drug Information Portal, which searches all NLM drug information resources.